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CFS awards equity, infrastructure mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... some of the world's most powerful mega-trends such as the green transition to a lower-carbon world, climate adaption, energy security, the shortening of supply chains and the digitalisation transformation that now includes the AI revolution." ClearBridge's ...

Investors plan to continue private markets love affair

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
... premium over the next 20 years. In terms of thematic opportunities, investors see opportunity across AI and technology, the energy transition, population ageing, and counter-cyclical positioning. The opportunity in AI and technology was deemed moderate ...

Super funds set renewables targets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
... Australia's renewables transition. The roundtable was for the Net Zero Transition Working Group to consider ASFA'S Toward an energy transition accord, which set out five recommendations to create a clear pathway to help unlock investment with appropriate ...

Private equity, real estate spearhead unlisted assets demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 NOV 2024
... diversified portfolio across a range of sectors, including airports, toll roads, digital infrastructure, healthcare, renewable energy, and timberlands. "In terms of regional mix, it is predominantly Australia based, with about 25% of the portfolio invested ...

Future Fund to back energy transition, residential housing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024
The Future Fund has been handed a new mandate, with the government directing it to prioritise investments in the energy transition, residential housing, and infrastructure. The $230 billion sovereign wealth fund has been provided with a new investment ...

Trump 2.0 set to boost small and mid-caps: Canopy Investors

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024
... positions, several domestic US sectors appear well positioned to benefit from his presidency. These include manufacturers, energy companies, and industries targeted for deregulation, for example financials." In response to the policies, Webster said ...

QIC backs Virescent Ventures

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2024
... Ventures' new climate technology fund, helping take its first close to about $125 million. QIC joins Westpac and the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) in backing Fund II, which will shortly announce its first investments. Fund II seeks to invest ...

Chalmers teases superannuation update

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2024
... superannuation and the retirement phase, we will be hosting another investor roundtable on Friday focused on housing and the energy transformation and other matters." While Chalmers did not elaborate on the upcoming superannuation announcement, he said ...

Macquarie offloads airports in $3bn deal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
... and is supporting $39 billion (£20 billion) of investment across its portfolio over the coming years to deliver improved energy, transport, utilities, social and telecommunications infrastructure in England, Wales and Scotland. The transaction is expected ...

Australian economy 'fundamentally sound': CBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
... categories rose in October, with only education (-1.3%) and utilities (-3.4%) falling, the latter due to government rebates on energy bills. "Spending rose marginally in October as income tax cuts, lower petrol prices and energy rebates freed some consumers ...